PlaneShift

Gameplay => Newbie Help (Start Here) => Topic started by: Jordan14 on December 04, 2004, 03:51:23 pm

Title: Questions?
Post by: Jordan14 on December 04, 2004, 03:51:23 pm

I\'ve been looking atthe game for a long time but have never really downloaded it because it seemed TO GOOD TO BE TRUE.

Well I have just decided it\'s time to give it ago, I gave the forum a search and found that everywhere everyone had posted it is fully free forever good news.

But what i\'m concerned about (pleased don\'t take this the wrong way) that maybe the game contains some viruses, or spyware or my worse enemy the dialler. I\'m sorry if you find this question offensive it just because PS seems, like I have said before : TO GOOD TO BE TRUE.

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Post by: Androgos on December 04, 2004, 04:05:29 pm

You better belive it.

If it will make you feel any better, PlaneShift\'s code is Open Source, which means if you have the knowadge, you are able to create the binaries by yourself.
Not many normal users have this option since they lack software/knowledge to do it.

PlaneShift is completly free, no ads, no nothing.
Everything is sponsord to us, nothing is exchanged for ads or anything..

I hope you can take my word for it

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Post by: Jordan14 on December 04, 2004, 04:11:11 pm

Well I have just started downloading it, and I want to add thanks for probally the quickest response on a forums I have ever had. Thanks again.

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Post by: zindane on December 06, 2004, 12:55:54 am

i downloaded Plane shift but the run me first bat thing isnt there what do i do?

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Post by: thezambOWNie on December 06, 2004, 12:56:29 am

Jordan to tell you the truth I\'ve had the same fear of the game. You cant trust anything free espeacially online but....when you really think about it thats why this game takes so long...its all volunteer the devs aren\'t getting paid. And when 3.0 comes out you\'d better believe I\'m gonna send a plague on my phone line for however long it takes on a 28800bps to download this beast.

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Post by: thezambOWNie on December 06, 2004, 12:58:07 am

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Originally posted by zindane
i downloaded Plane shift but the run me first bat thing isnt there what do i do?

First Welcome to Planeshift! Second please refer to the sticky threads with the dark blue background above all the normal threads for the answer to your question or the search button up above. If you dont your bound to get flamed.

EDIT: My bad I totally just told a kid off for double posting and here I go doing it.....

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Post by: Chestar on December 06, 2004, 01:18:01 am

Haha no sweat zambOWNie, maybe you can get the devs to make your edit button stand out. :P

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Post by: Seytra on December 06, 2004, 05:16:33 am

The spyware / virus / dialer issue is exactly why I don\'t trust anything that is not OpenSource for anything that might use the internet, because having the source is the only way of knowing what the program is going to do. Even without reading it by oneself, there will be several people who do, and therefore you can be pretty sure that anything evil will be discovered within days of it\'s appearance, and broadly announced. Of course, there still is the option of hiding things in the binaries, but this also is not very dangerous, because there will also be many people who build the binaries themselves and verify the outcome to the binary distribution.
Therefore this is a(nother) good reason why FOSS is superior. :tup: